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words Give meaning?
Speaking your ancestors’ language would if it hadn’t already failed before your time
So, rather than engage evolution, exhume those bones and listen to the waiata tangi. They asked you — you were grown up and proven — but you said no because, already, before the event, your soul was brittled
So, you stand and you pretend that The Word is not too meaningful to you and, clothed, you hide your secret adoption of “sing”
After the gathering and during the next dispersal they will neither notice nor care
But you will be winging it, and free; and you will go on to make Poem with ancient words
The Word from which children will Take meaning — taking, either in gentleness or selfishness
And you will teach only your own by living your calling
Wow free-form poetry – beat poetry?
neuralword.com
https://www.neuralword.com › en › education-history-science-general-culture-society › writing-communication › what-beat-poetry-signifies-unraveling-the-essence-and-impact
What Beat Poetry Signifies: Unraveling the Essence and Impact
Dec 16, 2023Beat poets sought to break free from the rigidity of traditional literary forms and embrace a more spontaneous and raw style of writing. They often explored themes of alienation, social injustice,
Inside NZ’s ‘hectic day’ after US President Donald Trump’s tariff shock | RNZ News https://share.google/dOmBDIyTm8TXHXC2d
It was bad, and the economy is everything — tops.
No record of the PM trying to talk to President Trump?
Like people say, Luxon is detached from reality.
“Market access issues or any perceived political divergences were not part of what was a simple surplus/deficit equation.”
If Luxon were not a man detached from reality he would be in a position to perceive political divergences. People are created to like one another. He doesn’t share. Neither did Ardern.
I just read my two headed monster and two pins story to Darryl and he warned against voodooism!
I never thought of that!!
It’s a story, folks. Scott isn’t required to get his Sunday School making a physical two headed monster then choosing the teacher’s pets to do the poofing.
The proof is in facts, Science. No symbols required. It’s all in your head, the stories.
What does all that mean? How does it relate to our everyday and how it can be bettered? Who is Scott, who is Darryl? WTF!
Oct.10/25 https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/574719/environment-minister-accused-of-using-position-to-influence-council-s-legal-process
How to get things done when you have connections.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-depth/576140/govt-s-independent-animal-welfare-experts-disagreed-with-pig-welfare-reforms
…Associate Agriculture Minister Andrew Hoggard announced a rewrite of pig welfare laws on 1 October, cancelling the previous Labour government’s plans to ban farrowing crates from 18 December…
( Now it is going to take 10 years for pig persons to adjust to making relatively small changes with consideration for both their businesses and the animals concerned. Oh dear what a strain. – Been on the table since 2022 apparently.)
The amendment bill meant that until December 2035, pig farmers could continue to put expectant sows in farrowing crates up to five days before birth and keep them there for up to four weeks after birth…
After December 2035, pregnant pigs can only be kept in the crates for three days before birth and four days after.
Farrowing crates are so small a sow cannot turn around in them. It prevents nesting behaviour and can lead to health problems but the pig industry argues they are necessary to stop sows from crushing their piglets.,,
The bill does, from 2036 on, require sows to be given soft materials to engage in nest-building behaviours and increases the space in a farrow crate given to growing pigs by 13.3 percent…
NAWAC’s 2022 recommendation would have cost an average indoor pig farm $1.57 million to pay for the proposed changes, he said.
“In comparison, total estimated capital expenditure investments for the changes I’ve recommended are $678,000,” Hoggard said…
Auckland University associate law professor Marcelo Rodriguez Ferrere said it was extremely rare for an expert body’s advice such as NAWAC to have been ignored.
“The government is essentially sidelining the very body that the [Animal Welfare] Act trusts with this sort of work, and the government is ignoring the agency that is supposed to be advising it,” said Ferrere, who is also president of the Animal Law Association….
Luxon is out of ideas… It’s time he stepped aside for the good of the country!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdUVZl4HsmQ
In this video I look at some of the businesses that are going into liquidation as the New Zealand economy flounders.
If only New Zealand could get a government who could see a future that was not just built around promoting a destructive housing Ponzi.
If Luxon can’t come up with new ideas that focus on local businesses instead of real estate, then its time that he got out of the way and let someone else have a go!
@karlsnowsill208
1 minute ago
AfterJacinda Ardern NZ needed a rock star, but instead got a groupie.
I wonder how the NZ economy is going to look when its all landlord, no tenants, no jobs and no businesses, because that’s where its headed.
@lostpowerstocupofcoffeetot8588
8 minutes ago
So much for property developers, landlords, property investors and foreign investors (cough, cough…China) saving our economy. Thanks Prime Minister Luxon, NZ now has no future thanks to you. Labour was no better either. So I wont be voting for anyone in the next national election!
Hayek’s Acolytes and History’s Judgement
Written By: Nigel Haworth – Date published: 1:02 pm, October 18th, 2025 – 3 comments
Categories: labour, national, same old national, Unions, workers’ rights – Tags:
Jim Bolger has received fulsome accolades for a long life of public service.
He is a quintessential New Zealand figure. Deeply rooted in the provinces, likeable and pragmatic, sharp and prepared to put in hard yards to win a position, at first glance he was the epitome of the Right under Keynesianism, a pragmatic one New Zealander with a social conscience. Much of the commentary has focused on later years and his constructive approach to, for example, Treaty matters. Commentary has been warm and respectful.
https://thestandard.nz/hayeks-acolytes-and-historys-judgement/
What is this about Jacqueline? A numbers game to you?. If you don’t have anything factual to say about our political system or witty stuff then you are wasting the space you take up.